HARNESSING THE POWER OF ENTREPRENEURIAL INNOVATION & HIGH-GROWTH COMPANIES
A major push and massive progress is needed in the seeding, accelerating, and scaling of these startups, adding value and offering interventions at the right time as they traverse the lifecycle from innovation to production to industrialisation to commercialisation. FORTs fuel startup success by providing CRITICAL PROGRAMMATIC INTERVENTIONS ACROSS THE ENTIRE LIFECYCLE OF PHYGITAL (Hardware-First, Digital-Plus) TECH ventures, to ensure that its startups win at every stage.
Forge.Fund also provides CATALYTIC CAPITAL VIA INNOVATION GRANTS AND SEED INVESTMENTS for hardware tech startups - funding product development in product-stage startups and commercialisation & growth in market and growth-stage startups.
A full-stack CORPORATE MANAGED PROGRAMS AND STRATEGIC SERVICES enabling Industrial Majors to unlock business value and gain strategic advantages across the lifecycle of seeding, accelerating, and scaling industrial tech ventures.
Forge's CVS Compass is a unified strategic planning framework for maximising value through Corporate-Startup engagements - offering an all encompassing visualisation tool to plan, execute, manage and govern strategic corporate innovation through corporate venturing programs. The Compass leverages a STRATEGY SANDBOX at its core, which serves as the contextual lens to implement VALUE CREATION PROGRAMS (Startup Engagement Programs). These programs are selected, scoped and sequenced for implementation are tied to VALUE CAPTURE MODELS (Startup Partnership Models) for unlocking financial, commercial, organisational, and operational value. Ultimately the governance and management of the portfolio of startup engagement programs and startup partnership models for maximising enterprise value are structured as VALUE GENERATION PATHWAYS
Serves as the foundational phase for a Corporate Venture Studio, involving the development of a comprehensive strategy framework aimed at maximising transformational outcomes, in alignment with and complementing the company's overarching vision for business growth & transformation - ultimately serving as the point of origin and defines the guiding principles for corresponding value creation programs and value capture models.
Technology
Development
Focus
Sustainability
Excellence
Outcomes
Strategic
Investments &
Acquisitions
Operational
Excellence
Outcomes
Business
Excellence
Outcomes
Startup engagement programs enable companies to innovate faster, build long-term competitive advantage, and capture value from emerging technologies. By partnering with startups, companies can access new markets, reduce costs, and drive growth, ultimately enhancing their resilience and profitability.
CO-INNOVATION
PRODUCT & VENTURE
PRODUCT
DEVELOPMENT &
SCALE
VALIDATE VALUE
CREATION
SPINOUT
INNOVATION
PROJECTS TO
TECH VENTURES
Startup partnership models unlock potential for inorganic scale by enhancing competitive advantage, diversifying product offerings, as well as unlocking bottom-line growth via cost savings driven by operational efficiency. These models capitalise on engagement programs for value creation - harnessing on the transformation of innovative technologies into revenue-generation opportunities, ultimately driving inorganic growth and profitability in a dynamic market landscape.
LARGE-SCALE
PROCUREMENT
JOINT GTM &
SYSTEM INTEGRATION
JOINT
INDUSTRIALISATION
STRATEGIC
INVESTMENTS
M&As